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Quoting: fabertawe"You will experience problems occasionally but I'd call these niggles and I've never had one I couldn't solve quickly just by checking the forums or Wiki. Call me perverse but I actually like problem solving any issues anyway!"

Haha, that describes me too.. I do run into issues occasionally when I'm upgrading packages, but it just forces me to do a little reading and applying work arounds. Normally 5-10 min distraction and everything is back up and running.

As a GNOME 3 user I can tell you that Arch adopts their updates a little bit soon, and the DE generally becomes stable only when it gets released with Fedora... that's a problem I was tired of. Also, several years ago, a friend of mine was using XFCE on Arch and the image viewer (ristretto) was updated with a completely unstable version that they kept for quite a long time. So, not all of Arch's problems can be troubleshooted, but that's the deal when you use bleeding edge distros. Oh and I forgot about adopting systemd, we had to adapt all our config files and stuff, and write systemd config files from scratch, without really knowing how it worked. That's a great experience as a user, I made many bug reports and contributed a lot, which is rewarding.

On another hand, on Fedora there's the automatic bug reporting tool, and I still report more accurately when needed, but not quite as often as with Arch.

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Quoting: fabertaweCall me perverse but I actually like problem solving any issues anyway! If you know what's installed (because you installed it) and why, then it's easier to troubleshoot and becomes second nature (I'm no techie by any means).

That's exactly what I liked about Arch, but after so many years running it, life has become more cluttered and I didn't have time to troubleshoot it any longer.

But it always comes in handy when you've got something wrong/weird with your system, even with other distributions. The only things that differ on my Fedora nowadays is SELinux policies and the system upgrades.

It comes with a pervert effect, though: whenever you see a strange boot message, you can't help but to investigate it... :P

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@liamdawe : To be more precise, AUR is a port-like system - which means it's been designed after FreeBSD's ports system, or like Gentoo.

Fine to see that you went on and switched to another distribution, as it is one of the many advantages of the Linux world. I started using Linux with a good old SuSE back when was in high school, after this I installed Ubuntu on my first x86 laptop - before that I had an iBook running Mac OS 9. That HP laptop lasted 2 years and died, t'was the last time I'd buy HP, ever.

After this I got my hands on a Pentium IV that used to be my main workstation. By then I was using Debian but I wasn't satisfied with some of their policies, so I switched to Fedora. That was around Fedora 11. I stick with it for a year or so, but I wanted more. I tried to switch to Gentoo, but the end result was not very convincing... So I settled with pure Arch Linux, somewhere around 2010 or 2011, only to switch back to Fedora two years ago.

I've been using many desktop environments, including XFCE, KDE 3 and 4, E17, my own OpenBox configuration, and GNOME 2 and 3, which I now stick with.

I want to state that switching over like I did allowed me to see many great things and ideas from developers that are invested in what they do and do it in a creative fashion. That's something proprietary Operating Systems lack these days: passion and creativity.

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Quoting: Segata SanshiroIs ChromeOS counted as Linux? Might explain why.

Finally, pornhub (NSFW obviously), a popular porn website has seen a 14% increase in traffic from Linux in the space of a year.

A lot of single Linux users out there :P.

That's what we call "single user mode"

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Quoting: hardpenguinSoooo... The Beamdog announcement is Icewind Dale 2 Enhanced Edition? The only classic from the series they are missing so far.

Could also be Planescape: Torment...
Could be great to have Icewind Dale 2 as it's the only one I haven't played at all!

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Quoting: tuubiThe Metro games proclaim "full controller support" so I assume it's not all hardcore twitch action, but how's the difficulty? Can I expect to enjoy the story even if I'm not that keen on (or very good at) FPS action?

It can range from really easy to hardcore crazy depending on your difficulty settings.

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I wish him the best!
He's been doing what should have been done for Linux gaming for so many years.

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Quoting: omer666I am often left wondering, if Steam suddenly ceases to work on my system, for any reason, what would happen?

It happened to Mac OSX Snow Leopard users. Suddenly their Steam client updated and bam! no longer ran in their system.

People opened threads on Steam's Community forums about this, but since in Apple's world when there is a new something you ditch the old one and buy the new one they weren't "that many" (in comparison), their petitions weren't heard.

That's one of the reasons why I stopped buying Apple stuff a long time ago. Back when it was classic MacOS era, you could keep using you good old MacOS 7.6, even when MacOS 8 or 9 were out. You just didn't benefit from the numerous enhancements, including HFS+, Sherlock and UI improvements, but you could run most of the apps and games released. With MacOS X, every year there was a new version you had to buy, because if you didn't you couldn't run you programs anymore. After 3 of those updates, improvements became scarce, or barely noticeable, and by the time reached OS X 10.4, I decided to call it a day.

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Quoting: HalKadoLinux office suites are very capable and well polished these days. Our company uses some excel macro's that people rely on but nothing that couldn't be scripted on linux with a little effort.

However, the one thing linux does not have is a decent email client, I think this is the biggest thing crossover/office can solve. MS Exchange is part of life in a lot of organizations, I rely heavily on it. While MacOS has alternative clients that play nice, linux is pretty limited. Linux based clients range from terrible to "ok, but not feature complete". I see something around 15000+ work emails a year, a solid client thats not web based is a must, and nothing I've used on linux comes close to matching the productivity of Outlook, or my personal favourite Airmail. Every year or so I give it another go and there are improvements, Davmail works really well, and there are some nice looking projects like Geary. But so far linux based email clients have always lacked functionality, are clunky, sometimes unreliable, and simply not up to par with whats offered on other platforms. I contemplated going linux for my work laptop but ended up landing on a MacBook, email was a major part of the choice.

In what category did Evolution fall? I'be been using it for the last 5 years or so, and I actually think it's really good. And it supports Exchange, too...

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: Xpander32bit should die allready.. seriously.

make the client fully 64bit also!

No, then people would lose access to the ability to download games that they've paid for the right to play. There must be some alternative in that case: some way to download the game itself on a 32bit system.

all games should be 64bit anyway nowadays.. valve can force devs to make 64bit versions only i guess.

All _new_ games, but _old_ games? Valve should just no longer permit people with 32bit systems to access 32bit games they'e bought & paid for the right to play?

-- edit: at the very least, if they cut off 32bit, allow older steam clients to operate and download material, but the problem is moving on and changing any access / drm internals.

That's the problem with DRM, they just do what they want...

I do think 32bit's been outdated for a long time now, but it raises the question as customers: will we forever be able to play those games we paid for?

I am often left wondering, if Steam suddenly ceases to work on my system, for any reason, what would happen?

The moment after, it's the Steam sales and I empty my wallet on even more games...

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